Forum rules
- Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked
to read the forum descriptions before posting.
Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see
policing below).
- Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users.
Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a
warning.
- Members are asked to not act as
“back seat moderators”. If members note an issue which contravenes something in
this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member
of the moderator team. Members who constantly “act” as moderators may be warned.
- Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience.
Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not
be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
- Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites,
media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on torrents,
crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning
and their post will be removed.
- Members are asked only to post in English, as this is an English
speaking community.
- Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The
use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party
systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be
removed.
- Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal
writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large,
small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive
punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing
this will be warned.
- Members should use an appropriate, descriptive subject when posting
a new topic. Examples of bad subjects include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've
got an error!", etc. Examples of good subjects include; "Getting an TABLE FULL
error upon login", "Cannot restore a backup", etc.
- Members are welcome to use the test forum for general "test
purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc.
(subject to previous points on decency, torrents, etc.).
- Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes
offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services,
solicitation etc. Recruiting members for your own projects (moderators,
designers, professional MOD work, etc.) is not permitted and is also considered
spam. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. See specific
item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information.
- The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit,
remove or put on moderation queue any post at any time. Please note that
currently any very first post is automatically placed in the moderation queue
and will be approved/disapproved according to the present Rules. The
determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in
these points is up to Team Members and not users.
- The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private
messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above)
and/or the revocation of private messaging.
Signatures
- Signatures may contain up to five lines of text (of small or normal
size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more
than 60px high, 468px wide and 6KiB
(6144 Bytes) in size. Signatures containing an image this large may
also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px
high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal
size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal
size text or four lines of small size text. Animated images are not allowed.
Remote avatars must have a consistently high availability otherwise these will
be removed. Limit on image filesize prevents detrimental effect on forums page
load speed.
- Text sizes should be between 75% and 100% (small and normal). Text
in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency,
torrents, emoticons, and so forth.
- Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages
or sites. Such links may only be to *.phpbb.com or approved material. Linked
sites may be commercial in nature. You may not include links in a way which
suggests you offer official support, software, etc. for phpBB. You may not link
to torrents, porn, racist or other similar hate sites. Links are included in
signature size limits.
- Users abusing these rules will be warned.
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